From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 16 15:25:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A11016A4CE; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:25:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from eddie.nitro.dk (port324.ds1-khk.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.113.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9733643D3F; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:25:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from simon@eddie.nitro.dk) Received: by eddie.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4A3E711A141; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:25:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:25:30 +0100 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: Denis Peplin Message-ID: <20050216152529.GA24104@eddie.nitro.dk> References: <42136211.9080908@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42136211.9080908@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] handbook/firewalls: rewrite warning X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:25:32 -0000 --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2005.02.16 18:09:05 +0300, Denis Peplin wrote: > > - When working with the firewall rules, always, > - always do it on the console of the system running the > - firewall or you can end up locking your self out. > - Alternatively, you may setup a cronjob to flush the > - firewall rules say every five minutes. > - This may not be acceptable for a corporate firewall, > - but should be ok for a home firewall. > + When working with the firewall rules, be > + very careful. Some configurations > + will lock yourself out of the server. > + To be on the safe side, you may wish to consider performing > + the initial firewall configuration from the local console > + rather than via ssh. I would suggest something like: + rather than doing it remotely e.g. via ssh.= Just to be a bit more general. Other than that it looks good to me. --=20 Simon L. Nielsen --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCE2Xph9pcDSc1mlERApgUAJ9HhUJBkeP1NkQ6UVA9bIUr8Wa5zwCeO54w xmb8DOX922Qspq/y/SI6jRs= =UusJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY--